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One of my many problems with becoming an adult.

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I gotta say this up front, I'm sick of hearing people talk about the election. I am! Whenever I hear someone open their mouth about our new president it's always one of two things. 1: "He's the best *bleeping* thing that happened to our nation, Lets build that wall! #Go 'Murcia!" Or 2: "We might hate him but we'll survive him. I really wish they didn't make us choose between two evils for the next leader of our country." People, do any of you see how wrong both of these types of statements are?

I seriously need to break these down, if nothin else but for my own sake. First of all, we do not know yet if he will be the best thing for us, and we also do not know if he will be the worst or if he will just do a pretty good, average job. This argument comes up during every single election. So stop feeling such pride around your buddies when you put your two sense in and say, "I know for a fact that this one will be the best." Because you don't know for a fact. He could be, but you won't know until the end of four years. This same line of thought came up for both sides of the voters when Obama went into office. There were people that thought he was going to be the anti-Christ. And then there were others that called everyone who didn't vote for him a "*bleeping* racist". There are always going to be harsh people opposing each other on this same issue, and they will become their worst every four years.

(Side note: yes, I actually am typing the word "bleeping" in place of where I have heard cusses to shield younger or more reserved readers. I'm not swearing and getting censored by the editor or something silly like that.)

Next, the "We might hate him but we'll survive him" mentality is once again something that was often being used when Obama went into office and others before. Obama just happens to be a more recent one where I actually have personal memories of hearing the quote above. I have only heard the same about other previous presidents from older adults who had to care during earlier elections about how bad it was because I was too young to understand or care back then. The thing is, whether we all love him or hate him, Trump is our president now. And unless he does something so stupid that he gets impeached, he's gonna be our president for at least the next four years. So the least we can do is show a little support and hope for the best rather than always pointing out every little thing that goes wrong.

And lastly, the whole choosing the lesser of two evils issue. I will admit that this was a thing I struggled with especially closer to the beginning of the presidential race. And I wanted to vote for another party, but every choice that seemed better would be constantly dropping out. And when it came down to it in the end, I realized that it would not make a difference if I as one single person voted for anyone other than Hillary or Trump. Because the majority had already been won over for either of the two, and the people whose votes actually mattered had been paid off or, again, won over.

Now don't take this as me singing the praises of Trump or anything, because I'm not. I admit there are a lot of faults with the way he chose to run his campaign, and a lot of idiots have been inspired to do terrible things using his name. That doesn't mean he wanted these people to do these things, but just a few words in one or two speeches can cause a massive snowball effect.

Very reluctantly at first I went to a Trump rally when he stopped in PA over the summer. At first I told my parents there was no way I would attend an even for him, and then I thought about it a little bit and realized that if I was going to make an informed decision that I should at least try to care. Unfortunately an even for Hillary never came up when I was in town so I was never able to hear her speak, but let me tell you something, I went to that Trump rally and boy, if he can do nothing else it's speak. And he had some very good points that I really hope he stays true to. Such as just one of many, better financial and psychological support for veterans. Of course he mentioned the wall, but only after someone shouted about it from the crowd. However when I watched the news later and saw highlights from the rally, not once did they mention any of the amazing ideas he put forward with his graphs and list of how he was going to try and make them happen. Nope. All they showed was when he started talking about the wall.

I know we all know the saying or similar sayings to, "you can't believe everything you see on the internet/tv." Right then I realized how true it was. And people, I probably sound like an "entitled millennial" but I really hated voting and everything I had to be hearing from friends and strangers alike. I watched the inauguration on Facebook's live feed (because I don't have cable) and the flood of comments I kept hearing and am still hearing about how awful it was and how terrible the next four years are going to be... I really just can't stand it anymore. Like I said earlier, lets at least try to look on the positive side. I heard absolutely nothing in his speech that day that would make him the bad guy here. Or make him look stupid or ignorant.

Yes he has made some bad decisions (as I said before) but that doesn't mean he is incapable of making good decisions! So can we please put this whole thing behind us and look toward a greater future? For the sake of friendships and to save dinner conversations from going sour at least.

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